Dr. Insanity - Cops Save Hostages From Killer's House Of Horrors

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

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Who shot? Who shot? Go ahead! Let me see you in the house! There's a gun! There's a gun! Police are surrounding a house in the middle of Kenosha City. Inside, an unknown gunman is holding wounded hostages and exchanging heavy gunfire with officers. What is it?

What is it? Ma'am, you gotta move! Ma'am, you got to move! Get out of him! Get moving! Get the fuck out of here! Leave! There's a lady in the house! In the middle of this chaos, officers have no idea who they're dealing with or why he's even firing at them. But by the time police finally confront the gunman,

it will already be too late. I have a hostage right here, your police officers, the kind of group, nobody's got two people are ready. Watch that window, watch that... Contact, contact! Your hands! Around 8.15 p.m. on a Monday night, multiple gunshots ring out in a quiet neighborhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Minutes later, at 8.19 p.m., 9-1-dispatch receives an alarming call from a man claiming someone just tried to kill him. Kenosha 911, what's the address of the emergency? I need medics and, you know, I need ambulance. Motherfucker, and it hurts. Let's see, address. 13, 24, 56th Street. I've just been shot.

Is that a house or an apartment? It's a house. It's a duplex. I've been shot in the leg and possibly the arm. The shooter is in the apartment next door, and I know he's got felony warrants out of Ohio or New York. Okay. Following this call, officers are quickly dispatched to the same.

scene. The caller also warns them that the gunman may have felony warrants out of state. At the time, it sounded just like another detail and a frantic call for help, but it was really a glimpse into someone far more dangerous than police expected. Just minutes later, police officers arrive at the scene. Almost immediately, they hear a woman screaming outside the duplex. Hey, we have a shooting right here. Let me say hands! He's in the house?

Is he, who's shot? Who shot? What? Show me your hands! Where is he, Luke? Come out here, come out here. Okay, who got shot? I think they got in the back time.

Okay. There's Johnny. Is this all right? One house? No, that's too. Okay, where do we get to his unit? Hang up. No, where do we get to his unit?

I need to know that. Where do we go? Yeah, free. You gotta tell us so we can help people. Spit it out. You got out and shot? Yes. The second one of the lights at.

As soon as officers make contact with the shaken woman outside, someone from inside quickly slams the door shut before they can get in the answers. With a duplex having two separate apartments and more, multiple firing angles, police can't afford to wait. They need to move the woman out of danger and secure the perimeter. But just as officers begin pressing the shooter to surrender, things take a dangerous turn. Get a hand! Let me see your hand!

Stop! Oh shit! Do that! Do you guys! There's a gun! There's a gun! There's a gun! It's a gun!

Fiddy! Dude! He's in the house! The gunman suddenly opens fire from the window, forcing police to scramble for cover, with Officer Luke and his partner retreating to the west side and Officer Bray diving behind a car directly in the shooter's sights. It offers some cover, but leaves her dangerously pinned. But in the scramble, police left the woman they'd just spoken to completely exposed in

the line of fire. Officer Luke quickly realizes she's still in danger. they'll need to get her out before the situation escalates further. Get that lady out of there! There's a lady in the house, we have shots fired, he's firing out the window at us. Get in the cover. Get in the cover. He's at the front of the house on the south side of the road. With danger escalating by the second, more backup units race to the scene,

and within minutes, multiple officers swarm the neighborhood. unaware that this is just the beginning of a deadly shootout, one that will put both officers and civilians at fatal risk. In these types of high-stakes situations, officers must make split-second decisions, and every choice could mean the difference between life and death. Over the next few minutes, we'll follow how they manage chaos and respond under immense pressure.

Starting with Sergeant Brian Miller and Adam Jurgens, who are just arriving from the West and East, stand east side while the gunman continues firing. He's at the front of the house on south side of the road. Where's he at? Where's it at? Where's it at? What house? What house? What house? What's this sucker? What do you have? What do you have? He's firing out the window at us. Okay, come back.

Can you come back? Can you come back? Which one? You got to come. There's a road. Ah, fucking Christ. Ten front of the house on the road. Ma'am, you got to move.

Get out of it! Get moving! We have... We have... Where is it? Second house? Second house. Second house?

Second house? Upstairs or what? Where? He was in the front window, yeah. Clearly the situation facing officers is extremely unpredictable. The gunman has already fired from three exposed windows at the front of the house and another on the east side, where Sergeant Juergens returned. Sergeant Juergens returned fire. On the west side, two more exposed windows are accessible to the shooter, as well as a garage

and a back exit officers don't even know about, giving the gunmen even more ways to slip outside or stage an ambush. But in the midst of all of this, there are two urgent problems at play. First, police think they're only dealing with an active shooter, but there are hostages inside the house and officers have no idea yet. Second, Officer Bray and the civilian woman remain trapped and exposed to the shooter's sights. The longer they wait, the more likely they'll be caught in the crossfire.

Hey, Bray, can you move? Can you come back to me? I can't. I can't. 495, do you have the shield? We have somebody that's stuck right in front. Shield's in the squad. I'm up on the front corner. Someone gave me a shield!

Stay right there. Just stay behind the end of the block. I am. You got anything else? You see you there or no? We're just a suspect or this lady at? I don't know. There's people inside.

This revelation finally puts everything inside. This revelation finally puts everything in perspective for officers. With hostages involved, it's clear that the situation is becoming much more complicated and a rescue plan is needed urgently. So at the stakes now higher, officers have two critical priorities. First, they need to extract the pinned officer before the situation becomes even more dangerous. Second, they must clear the perimeter and breach the house to rescue the hostages trapped inside. To move forward, Sergeant Adam Juergens requests a shield, and

as they prepare to move with the extraction plan. Hey, we need the shield up here. I got somebody stuck right in front of the house. We got to get them out of them. Okay, we're coming up to you. Staying here. You see her? Look, look.

You see her right here where she's stuffed by the car? Yep. She's right over here. The house is this one right here. He was shooting right from the front window towards me. So there's somebody in there. there's somebody in there okay okay so let i think their priority is we have to go get bray out of there right because she's really stuck so you tell me what you want to do from here that woman is

saying that there's two people in here and that this dude has a guy hostage so all right hey here's come with me yeah take your rifle you just go that way you ready yeah we'll go Hey, we gotta get out, let's go. You face it out. I got it. I got it. Holy shit! Fortunately, the extraction goes smoothly and Officer Brittney is pulled to safety.

safety, though the real danger is still far from over. By now, multiple officers have surrounded the house from both the east and the west sides, with additional backup units arriving from the east end. But things are still dangerously unpredictable, because in the middle of all of this chaos, CCTV captures a car pulling slowly into the parking lot near the house, seemingly oblivious to the active gunfire unfolding just a few feet away. Who is that? Watch this.

Get the fuck out of here. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck, move. Get out. Fucking shooting across the street at us. You're not paying any fucking. Attention. With the civilian swiftly cleared from the scene, officers refocus on the real danger ahead.

They need to extracts the civilian woman still stuck at the corner of the house and then quickly devise a plan to confront the gunman without risking casualties. But as officers begin coordinating their next move, the gunman is already preparing to do something far worse, something that will force police to act, whether they're ready or not. Go ahead! Come on! Man, are you hurt at all! Sarge, I got four.

Okay, so there's a woman that's in this corner of this house. That's going to be at all. going to be at the northeast side. And she's kind of stuck right in here. I think she's right there. Did you see that? Did you see that? We can work a team to get her out. That's what we want to do next. Did you see anything or no? We have a female on this side just saying that they're shooting from the apartment out, I think, on the east side. Is she okay to be injured? No. Do we have any idea of where the shots are coming from? So when I shooting, I shot towards the house and he was, it looks like he was shooting at this front window

this way towards Bray. Okay. Now I've seen him break windows and I can see gunshots that are actually... Canada's Wonderland is bringing the holiday magic this season with Winterfest on select nights now through January 3rd. Step into a winter wonderland filled with millions of dazzling lights, festive shows, rides, and holiday treats. Plus, Coca-Cola is back with Canada's kindest community, celebrating acts of kind of kind us nationwide with a chance at 100,000 donation for the winning community and a 2026 holiday

caravan stop learn more at canadaswunderland.com on like all sides of the house so i don't know where he's at okay we can see the train trains we're gonna move up a little bit closer to a couple of garages we can take puffer up right more shop fired there are people inside those painful screams that followed the gunshot confirmed the world. The gunman has just shot one of the hostages inside the house. Now, more than ever, officers know they need to act. If they wait any longer, more lives could be put at risk. With that terrifying realization, officers immediately scrambled to collect as much critical information as possible before moving inside to confront the shooter.

They still don't know exactly how many people are in the shooter. how many people are inside, where the shooter is positioned, or who exactly they're dealing with. But that is about to change. We need to figure out if we have a hostage in there and we got to move. So she says there is. She told me that there's a, her husband is with the shooter and those are the only two that are in there. Yeah, let me, let me work on that. Ma'am, who's inside the house again? What's her name?

Matthew Lopez, got it. Okay, see what you got associated for Matthew Lopez in the house. This woman out here is saying that that's the gunman. And I believe that Gary Tubbs is the husband, she's saying he's stuck inside with him. With a suspect name identified, officers can finally begin to piece together who they're dealing with. And what dispatch relays back raises serious concerns. According to their checks, Matthew Lopez is a registered offender. Even worse, the initial 911 caller also told dispatch that Lopez has felony warrants

in Ohio or New York and is possibly using a fake name, though his true motives would prove to be far more complicated. With all this in mind, police realize they're dealing with an armed offender with a violent, disturbing past. But just as that information is sinking in, something completely unexpected happens. The supposed perpetrator inside the home picks up the phone and calls 911 himself. Hello? This is a connection 911. What's the address to the emergency? I have a hostage right here, and your fucking police officers are trying to sue me.

I've already just got two people already. I'm not afraid of dying about to kill him. God, I got it right to the fuck back in his head right now. I see one guy. He's going to ski go by me. This is the problem with the fucking police. I'm telling you, you guys want to play? Okay.

I don't give the fuck. And I don't have much battery left either. So if you got going to get this fucking battery, I got a fucking really if you trigger, lady. And I still got three balls left. How many people are in there with you? Two. The people that are with you, are they injured?

Yes. Okay. Where do they have injuries, too? In the femur. In the femur? In the femur? Because your officer kept coming in there. I have for simple demands.

Both of them shot in the femur? The other man with the intruder is scared the shit out of me. You understand me? He's my neighbor. You can't just break your time. me one more time, please people here, call. Let's do it right now. I'm going to hang up so that somebody can call and talk with you, okay?

Okay, ma'am. Just make sure to answer your phone. Okay, dear, I'm not going to say you, Jerry. Okay, what do you need me to do, okay? Hang up, and then they're going to call you. It's your phone. I didn't mean she did. Jerry, but you're looking back.

Okay, above the name. About the name. Okay. Shut up. Although Lopez never explains his motives or makes demands, he does confirm he's already shot two people inside the home, and in the background of the car. and in the background of the call, a wounded hostage can be heard, groaning,

he's going to do it, he's going to kill me. So with hostages already bleeding and the gunmen threatening to kill, the margin for error is razor thin. And the choices police make within the next 10 minutes will determine who makes it out alive and who doesn't. Watch that window. Contact, contact! Hey, hats!

For now, the situation is becoming more hands. hectic than before, and the longer police wait to make a move, the worse things will get. They have to get inside. We have a mail on the phone saying he has two hostages shot to all ready, and that he has three bullet and the full numbers in the narrative. We still have him on the line. He's really going to fucking, I'm going to try to call this stuff while on the seat, baby. 5.5.3, move up to that truck, okay?

I am. Stay by. Okay. Headquarters. Okay. Okay. Do you have some person talking with the bail in the house? Is he saying that he talking with an officer and he shot people in the house and seen her?

We have the contact team. You got Peps and O'Neill and I. So if you have injured, I'll get out right to go in. Okay, you want me to try to call them first and see if we can work this? We can try to, if they had to get medical, what kind of fucking am that? If you can make the team, I think you're right. I think we're probably going to have to. You got a team.

Do you get some for there? Yeah. All right. Got long cover? Cover. At this stage of the standoff, multiple developments are happening behind the scenes. Negotiators are patched in, calling Lopez's phone and trying to draw him back into conversation as the perimeter tightens around him. Medics are staged just both.

or staged just blocks away waiting at a nearby elementary school. And around the neighborhood, roadblocks are set up to keep any more civilians from wandering straight into the middle of a gunfight. With all these precautions in place, officers on the ground prepare to make one final attempt to reach Lopez and push for a surrender. Keep doing your thing, but I'm going to try to call them too. You guys, two or three, I think, go over here on the northeast corner of the house. If we can move these guys up around here around the trees and try to get them out, I think that would be a benefit. be a benefit. This is a multi-fucking, so we're, there's three doors? Fuck. The one on the east is a different unit.

A big one on the south pier. So that window in the southwest has rounds to it. It's shattered. We can get a rifle there. That's somebody just going to the front. Probably the best option. 55332 is not working, so I need the phone number for this guy. 262-5-15, stating his name is Matthew. Please link your message for

2-2-2-2-2. Well, it just went the voicemail. With Lopez's phone now going straight to voicemail, any chance of negotiating a peaceful surrender is gone. Officers realize they can't wait any longer. It's time to go in. Sergeant Brian Miller coordinates a contact team. Their plan is simple, but high risk.

Enter through the front door with a ballistic shield, neutralize the threat, and extracts the hostages. At the same time, other officers, are instructed to reposition and cover additional angles around the perimeter. Officers know this is extremely risky, and once they breached the door, they could be walking straight into a gunfight. All right, well, let's get a little bit. There's be a shield team.

O'Neill want you to walk up with this, split off, and take that window on the southwest side. I got it. I got it on you, ready? Keep trying, but, yeah, I don't know what I mean? I don't, keep going. So, who's got the shield? I got the shield. Alright, what's the plan? Where are we headed?

Front door, right there with the mailboxes. O'Neill is to take it the window that's cracking the southwest side. I see it? Right next to the door. Yeah. So peel off then, step, or put up. Your right side and left side of the shield. All right, nice, slow.

Durkins one left, time we're moving up. Alright, ready? Yep, all right, moving. This is slow. I got the window tip for left, left, left door. Okay. Get that window. Got it.

That's what the window. Two all the way around with one. Okay, go up. Go up, go up, go up. There's one. There's one man that, I saw them. What do you want? What do you want?

What do you want? Don't you peel up the other side of the house? Go ahead. Let's try to kick her, right? Kick it? Yep. Yeah. Contact, contact.

Left. He went left. What do you got? What do you got? Watch that window. Watch that fucking window. Hey, hands. Hands.

I got him. What you got? What do you got? Where's the shooter? What do you got? What do you got? I don't know. Get your hand.

Keep my hand. As police barge inside the house, they find two severely, wounded men, both lying on the floor, bleeding, and barely responsive. It's not yet clear who they are, but both appear to be hostages suffering from gunshot wounds. However, the situation is still far from under control. Beyond this room, there is still a kitchen area, multiple bedrooms, as well as a basement, and with the shooter still unaccounted for, Lopez could be anywhere.

This dude's right here. Right here, you find that. Stop. I need light. Give me light. I got the hand. Give me light. I got my hand.

We need to drag him out. Go on, John, I got it. Okay, come on. Four, push up. Bring men up. What do you want? Six, five, seven. We got med and around.

Hey, drag him out. Drag him out. He's probably got a gunshot to the leg, mate. Nope, he's got a head shot to the wound. Hey, we need to find, they said there were two injured here. One, two. We're here with me the rest of the house. Five, seven, we've got two apparent with bloodshelves to the head.

Okay. Keep the stage for a minute, we've got to clear the house. Who's got a stroll? That's me. All right. Okay. All right, let's go. You're going to take this right. I'm going to take a lap. I got you.

I'm holding on kitchen. Give me one. I got you, ready? Check down there. Hold on, one, one. Hold on, hold right there. Okay, room clear. Room clear.

Okay, I'm out. I got closed door to my left, kitchen opens up to the right. Okay, switch out, she'll go first. I got laid on in that ring under there. All right. All right, I got open door right. So it looks like a back exit door here. All right.

We can go. Do you go up a little bit? Hi. Thank you, you one guy. You got me. What does this lead to? It might go to a basement, I don't know. Let's hit.

So just move this. Let's go for a little bit and see if that goes out to us. Hold on that. Hold on that. I got it, I got it. How many people are we still missing right now? So, all right. They had two hostages.

So far we've got two. So we've got two. We don't know about anybody else. Okay. So all three people are counting for. No. There's two. Hold that.

All right. Oh, Neil, just come. All right, just hit that door now. Ready? Yep. Locked. Okay. With the basement door being locked, a major complication faces officers.

Basement entries are some of the most dangerous spaces for law enforcement. The narrow layout, blind corners, and poor lighting make it almost impossible to clear safely, especially when a suspect is barrack. is barricaded inside. If Lopez is down there, officers could be walking straight into an ambush. So instead of forcing the door, a sergeant makes the call to hold the basement for now and shifts the priority to secure the outside perimeter, confirm whether the gunman slipped out or is still hiding elsewhere on the property. Officer Eric Glam heads out to check the exterior, and that's when they hear someone in the garage. Yeah, just come with me.

Just hold, someone hold there. Are you guys in the garage? How many people are in there? Just you and the two dogs? Can you leave the dogs in there and come out? Okay, we're going to open the door, okay? Just make sure I can see your hands, all right? Okay.

All right. All right. Okay. Who was all inside the apartment? My husband, Gary Tav. And who else? Matthew Lowe. Is there anybody else we don't know?

Is there anybody else that was in there? No. Okay. Ma'am, why don't you... Dewey lives in the side apartment. Dewey? When they got shot. Turns out the civilian woman from earlier managed to run and hide inside the garage.

According to her, there's someone else still inside the house in a different section of the duplex that officers haven't cleared yet until now all attention has been focused on the front unit and the basement but the layout of the home is a two-unit structure with the second unit still unaccounted for but before officer eric glom can relay that information sergeant brian miller is already patrolling near that side of the house unaware it hasn't been cleared what door is that you know you don't know where anything's at Okay. Who's going where? This is the... It should be the living room. This should be the second place in the kitchen. Blue Boo Boo!

That's the living room? Living room? Living room? Living room? No, boo Boo! Kitchen! All right. Yep.

What we got here, we know? Yeah. Booboo. Boo Boo! What? Police! Police! Come on, one person up.

Police department. Police department. Sergeant Miller. Hi. Come on out here, guys. I'm trying, I'm trying. I'm shot. Your shot? Where? In my leg. Anybody else in here?

No, just me and my dog. All right, let's go out. Okay, I've got officers right here by me. Okay, I'm gonna let them help you, okay? Okay, thank you. Use the door, but come on, come on out. All right, bye, bye. Hold that.

Got the three right down the step. Yep. Go ahead and step my door, please. You don't let my dog out. Your dog's be fine. He's friendly. Who else is in here with you? Nobody.

It was just me and my dog. Did this wrap around the same apartment? No. No, it's... No, 95. Yes. Hey, so you got two victims, so you have the suspect, but we still got it in there, but we got him in that? We can't clear the basin yet.

This is different guy, a different apartment. Okay. Watch that window, guys. Yep. Is that what he said? That's where I do believe he's at. Inside the second unit, Sergeant Miller finds the same man who first called 911. He's also suffering from a gunshot wound, making him the third confirmed victim extracted from the scene so far. But Sergeant Miller,

quickly realizes something is not adding up. Earlier, Lopez claimed there were only two hostages, but now police have found a third victim. If this man is a hostage just like the other two they extracted earlier, that means Lopez might have been lying, and there could be even more people inside the house unaccounted for. Police proceed to check the unit but find no sign of the gunman. That leaves only one place they haven't cleared. The basement. Officers quickly regroup and head back towards the locked basement door prepared to face whoever might be hiding there.

Okay, get the shield up. Ready? Okay. Open. I feel open it out. Okay, get the shield up. All right, Miller. Yep.

You go one. Mike. I'm following. Okay. All right. Two or three. All right. Okay.

Go. Great following. Tommy. Okay. I'm going to move up into the door. Can I take to the left here? Okay. You got motion here.

Okay. Just slow down here. Let me clear this. Okay. I'm on you. I'm one. Yep. Ready?

Blue blue. Go to this side. Okay, there's a dead corner here I can't clear yet. All right, I got it. Fuck. See what I'm talking about? Yep. Alright, let me peel off.

Okay. I'll peel up this left side here. Clear back here. Oh, cleared? What do you? So we got a big room to clear. We can use one more. You got two.

You got four? You got four total. Eric, I'm going to go one. I'm going to go right, okay? Hold on this door. All right. Do it? Moving.

Go. I got this door here. Someone shut that corner. Miller's got the corner. I'm on you. The corner's good. That's good? Yeah.

Okay, I'm all open this door. Mike. I think this is the cellar door. Flip-low, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, dead space. Officers go on to clear the rest of the basement with no sign of Lopez or any additional hostages. For a brief moment,

moment, they believe Lopez escaped during the chaos and could still be at large. That changes when one of the surviving hostages gives a description of the suspect. A Hispanic male, early 30s, heavily tattooed, wearing a green shirt. With that description, officers quickly realized Matthew Lopez isn't missing. He was one of the wounded men they already carried out earlier. He shot himself and was critically injured the moment officers force their way inside. With the scene fully secured, Lopez and the injured hostages were transported to hospital

for treatment. In the meantime, detectives got to work piecing together the night's events, why Lopez opened fire, and what his true motives may have been. What they discovered was a spiral of paranoia and violence. In the days before the shooting, Matthew Lopez had been living in the duplex with housemates after moving from New York to start fresh. But over the weekend, he disappeared with a friend to use drugs, came back, agitated and paranoid,

claiming he was targeted and drugged, that his phone was wiped and ranting about a stolen kilo of cocaine. On the evening of December 19th, while others cooked and watched a movie, Lopez finally snapped. He suddenly grabbed a woman, pulled out a pistol, shouted about people outside trying to kill him, and fired two rounds into the ceiling.

Investigators later confirmed the bullet holes above the living room area. As panic spread, Lopez turned the gun and shot one resident in the femur. When a neighbor stepped outside to investigate the commotion, Lopez shot him as well. Detectives later concluded that it was the peak of a drug-fueled paranoia spiral that made Lopez lash out at those around him before confronting police and turning the gun on himself. The injured victims were treated and discharged from hospital, but Matthew Lopez was later pronounced dead, and with him the true motive for the Kenosha standoff died as well.